Do you think your favorite celebs are happy about the results of their plastic surgery? Or do they deeply regret it? As you'll soon come to find out, it's a mix. You won't believe what some of them have to say.
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00:00Do you think your favorite celebs are happy about the results of their plastic surgery,
00:04or do they deeply regret it? As you'll soon come to find out, it's a mix. You won't believe
00:08what some of them have to say.
00:10While just about every member of the Kardashian-Jenner family has been the subject of plastic surgery
00:15rumors, not everyone has been prepared to admit if they have or haven't gone under the
00:19knife. Occasionally, one of the family members gets comfortable enough to own up to the truth,
00:23which was the case in June 2021 when Khloe Kardashian revealed on the Keeping Up With
00:27the Kardashians reunion special that she had a nose job. During the interview, Kardashian
00:31explained that no one has ever specifically asked her if she's had work done on her nose
00:35until filming for the reunion special began, before adding,
00:38"'Everyone says, oh my gosh, she's had her third face transplant, but I've had one nose
00:44job, Dr. Raj Kanodia.'"
00:46Kardashian went on to share that she's had injections done as well, though denies that
00:50those injections were Botox. She said she's done injections, but tried to avoid Botox
00:54because of poor responses to it.
00:57Kourtney Kardashian is another member of the Kardashian family that's been open about her
01:00cosmetic procedures. In a 2010 interview with ABC's Nightline, she spoke about the breast
01:05augmentation she'd done years before. She approached the topic with her signature breezy
01:09attitude, explaining,
01:10"'I have had breast implants, but it's so funny, cuz it's not a secret. I could care
01:14less.'"
01:15Kardashian even went on to poke fun at photographs of her following the birth of her first child,
01:19Mason. In the interview, she explained that having a baby and breastfeeding him has done
01:23more for her body than surgery did, joking,
01:25"'They should have written before Mason and after Mason. Like, my boobs have like, tripled
01:30since breastfeeding.'"
01:31However, Kardashian reportedly came to regret the choice to undergo the surgery at some
01:35point, as she told Showbiz Spy in 2011. She explained,
01:38"'I had my boobs done, but if I could go back, I wouldn't have done it. I was so cute before.'"
01:43Thought we were done with the Kardashian family? Think again. Turns out, Kris Jenner has had
01:47plastic surgery in the past, too. Kim Kardashian was preparing to marry Kris Humphries in 2011
01:52when her mother made the decision to get a facelift before the big day, and to have the
01:56procedure filmed and shared on Keeping Up With the Kardashians. At the time, Jenner
02:00seemed fairly terrified of the procedure, telling the cameras,
02:03"'I've never had such a stressful morning, honestly, in my entire life.'"
02:07After Kris broke down and started to cry, Kim reassured her mother, telling her not
02:10to be scared. Ultimately, she went through with it, and it was filmed for all to see.
02:15This isn't the only procedure she's had. In a 2015 appearance on Good Work, Jenner shared
02:19that she's dabbled in quite a bit, admitting she's had Botox, fillers, laser treatments,
02:24and breast augmentation.
02:26If there's one celebrity that's been only too happy to be honest about the plastic surgery
02:30she's had done, it's country music legend Dolly Parton. In a 2011 interview with The
02:34Guardian, Parton candidly explained that she's no stranger to going under the knife, saying,
02:38"'If something is bagging, sagging, or dragging, I'll tuck it, suck it, or pluck it.'"
02:43In 2014, Parton told Southern Living that she based her outward appearance on a person
02:47the magazine described as her town's trollop. Parton explained that she's had quite a bit
02:51of work done for one reason. As she put it,
02:53"...I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing
02:58personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone."
03:00Years later, Parton's surgeon, Dr. John Grossman, visited Today and chatted in part about the
03:05work he's done for the singer. As he told the audience,
03:07"...Parton has undergone a breast augmentation and several face augmentations."
03:12Cardi B and Mariah Carey engaged in a detailed and lively interview back in February 2021.
03:17Among other things, the two discussed plastic surgery and hair care for Interview magazine,
03:22and Cardi B opened up in a big way about what work she's had done and why. After admitting
03:26that she had a lot of insecurity about her breast size, Cardi revealed to Carey that
03:30she paid for her own breast augmentation when she was 18. But that wasn't enough, as she
03:34began to worry about the size of her butt as well. She admitted,
03:37"...When I was 20, I went to the Urban Strip Club, and in the Urban Strip Clubs, you have
03:41to have a big butt, so I felt insecure about that. It took me back to high school, so I
03:45got my ass done. And then I felt super confident."
03:48How did she go about it? She underwent a series of illegal injections until she achieved the
03:52desired outcome. As she explained to DJ Vlad in 2017,
03:55"...and then almost every girl was going to this lady that was getting the shots in Queens,
04:01and it's like, well, give me her number."
04:04There are a lot of rumors out there that Katy Perry has undergone several procedures, and
04:08the singer does admit that keeping things fresh is important to her. She told Refinery
04:13a new haircut or beauty regimen or style, that's just fun. It keeps me interested. However,
04:19that doesn't mean that she has actually surgically altered her body, despite what you might hear.
04:23She explained,
04:24"...I haven't had any surgery. I've done lasers and got filler injections under my eyes for
04:28the Halloween, which I'd recommend for everyone who wants a solution for their dark circles,
04:32but all of my assets are real."
04:34This doesn't mean that Perry doesn't support those who do get plastic surgery. She went
04:37on to explain that she believes if changing their body makes someone feel good, then that's
04:41all the more reason why they should do it. As she said,
04:43"...do whatever makes you feel better about yourself. Stay in therapy, but get it, girl!"
04:48In 2019, Yolanda Hadid celebrated her 55th birthday by revealing that she has undone
04:53all of the plastic surgery she's undergone throughout the years. Hadid shared the update
04:57on Instagram, offering a lengthy caption that read, in part,
05:00"...living in a body free of breast implants, fillers, Botox, extensions, and all the b----
05:05I thought I needed, in order to keep up with what society conditioned me to believe what
05:08a sexy woman should look like, until the toxicity of it all almost killed me."
05:12Hadid went on to explain that despite the bad choices she made in the past, she has
05:15finally reached a point where she feels internally and externally beautiful at the same time,
05:20and that celebrating the beauty each of us has is really the key to a long, happy life.
05:24As she puts it at the end of her post,
05:26"...beauty has no meaning without your health."
05:29Supermodel Bella Hadid has followed in the famous footsteps of her mother Yolanda and
05:33her sister Gigi, both of whom have also worked as models. As a famous face, Bella has been
05:37up against a lot of pressure to change aspects of how she looks. In a March 2022 interview
05:42with Vogue, Bella revealed that she regrets one of the times that she gave in and got
05:46a nose job at the age of 14. While referencing her father's Palestinian heritage, Bella shared,
05:50"...I wish I had kept the nose of my ancestors. I think I would have grown into it."
05:54Though this is the only procedure that Bella has admitted to, there are still plenty of
05:58rumors that she's had a lot of work done on her face. She said,
06:01"...people think I fully messed with my face because of one picture of me as a teenager
06:04looking puffy. I'm pretty sure you don't look the same now as you did at 13, right?"
06:08As for those who believe the young model has had a facelift, she revealed her secret, facial
06:12tape. As she put it, it's the oldest trick in the book.
06:16Who doesn't know the Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco by now, even if you've never watched
06:20the show?
06:21"...Oh, I didn't tell you, you're banished from the Cheesecake Factory."
06:26Turns out, she's no stranger to plastic surgery or talking about the work she's had done on
06:30her body. In a candid interview with Women's Health, she explained that she's focused on
06:35her physical form and health, and that she has a pretty serious workout regimen, and
06:38that she's had work done on her face and her breasts.
06:40After admitting that she underwent a nose job years before the interview, Cuoco added,
06:44"...and my boobs. Best thing I ever did!"
06:46In addition to those two surgeries, Cuoco confessed that she's also had filler done
06:50on her neck. She explained,
06:52"...Recently, I had a filler in a line in my neck I've had since I was 12. As much as
06:56you want to love your inner self, I'm sorry. You also want to look good."
07:00Supermodel Cindy Crawford is no stranger to the pressure that many women can feel to have
07:04their outward appearance meet the standards set by others. And in an interview with InStyle
07:08UK, Crawford revealed that she has a cosmetic surgeon who helps keep her skin and body looking
07:13the way she wants it to. As she puts it,
07:15"...this is all part of aging in the public eye."
07:17Crawford said,
07:18"...I'm not going to lie to myself. Past a certain age, creams work on the texture of
07:21your skin, but in order to restore elasticity, all I can really count on is vitamin injections,
07:26Botox, and collagen."
07:28Crawford was quick to add that her healthy lifestyle also contributes to keeping her
07:31face and body young, explaining that a combination of diet and exercise has done a lot for her.
07:36But in the end, she admitted,
07:37"...I owe the quality of my skin to my cosmetic surgeon."
07:41Model and foodie Chrissy Teigen is a celebrity that can generally be counted on to be pretty
07:45transparent when it comes to… pretty much anything.
07:47"...What's your biggest fear?"
07:49"...Dying a slow, agonizing death."
07:53This goes double for the truth about the plastic surgery she's gone through with. While speaking
07:57to Refinery29 in 2017, she shared that not only has she undergone liposuction, but she's
08:01also been very happy about it. Teigen explained that she has had two inches sucked out of
08:06her armpit and didn't regret a single thing, adding,
08:08"...It was the dumbest, stupidest thing I've ever done. The dumbest, but I like it. Whatever.
08:13I have no regrets, honestly."
08:15Teigen has also been open about the fact that she's had her breasts augmented, and that
08:18she eventually had her implants removed. While speaking to Glamour UK, she explained that
08:23the decision to get implants was based on her work as a swimsuit model over two decades
08:27ago, adding,
08:28"...It was more for a swimsuit thing. I thought, if I'm going to be posing, laid on my back,
08:32I want them to be perky."
08:33Teigen opted to have the implants removed many years later, offering up a characteristically
08:38candid explanation. She wrote in an Instagram post,
08:40"...They've been great to me for many years, but I'm just over it. I'd like to be able
08:44to zip a dress in my size, lay on my belly with pure comfort."
08:48In October 2021, actor Jamie Lee Curtis blew the lid off her own plastic surgery experiences
08:53when she told the UK morning show Lorraine that absolutely none of it works, or at least
08:57not for her. Curtis admitted to getting quite a lot of work done before she says that her
09:01own mistakes with plastic surgeries have helped her become more passionate about aging naturally.
09:06The actress confessed,
09:07"...I did plastic surgery, it didn't work. I hated it."
09:10Curtis also explained that this attitude extends to her signature short hairstyle, though it
09:14took her time to accept the look as the best one for her. In fact, when she stopped making
09:18changes to her hair, she began to appreciate not making changes to her body. She explained,
09:23"...Since then, I also stopped dyeing it, and then I've also been an advocate for not s----
09:29with your face."
09:30Iggy Azalea's willingness to discuss her past cosmetic procedures dates back to at least
09:342015, when she spoke openly to Seventeen about the importance of accepting ourselves as we
09:39are. After setting off rumors that she'd done something to her face in May of the same year,
09:43Azalea told the publication that she had a nose job and that this wasn't all she'd
09:46had done. In addition to the rhinoplasty, Azalea had undergone a breast augmentation.
09:51She doesn't regret either choice, telling Seventeen,
09:53"...I don't think you should be ashamed if you made a change to yourself, which is why
09:56I've spoken about the changes I've made, like with my breasts."
09:59However, Azalea believes that plastic surgery shouldn't be taken lightly. As she went on
10:04to explain, she only decided to move forward with her procedures after doing her own research
10:08online. She also told the magazine that she believes there are a lot of emotions behind
10:12making the decision to change your body, saying,
10:14"...it's no easy feat to live with your flaws and accept yourself, and it's no easy feat
10:18to change yourself. Either way you look at it, it's a tough journey."
10:22In March 2018, Tyra Banks had big words for anyone who is, in her words, a natural beauty.
10:27While speaking to People, Banks explained why, saying,
10:30"...natural beauty is unfair. I get really uncomfortable when women who are these natural
10:34beauties judge anybody who does anything to themselves."
10:37This led her to confess to her past cosmetic procedures and why she had them done. After
10:41saying that the bones in her nose were growing and itching, she admitted,
10:44"...I could breathe fine, but I added cosmetic surgery. I admit it, fake hair, and I did
10:49my nose. I feel I have a responsibility to tell the truth."
10:52Banks then emphasized that while she appreciates the no-makeup aesthetic, it's not one for
10:56her. For starters, makeup is just another tool that she needs to do her job as a model
11:00and entertainer. As she put it,
11:02"...wearing makeup helps make her competitive within the cut-throat, appearance-based world
11:06of supermodels, and she doesn't regret a thing."
11:09Nene Leakes didn't shy away from admitting what plastic surgery she's undergone while
11:12filming The Real Housewives of Atlanta. In November 2010, she opened up about the various
11:17procedures she pursued, which included rhinoplasty to narrow her nostrils. While some fans didn't
11:22like the look, Leakes told People that she did, explaining,
11:24"...I love what I did. I didn't want to change my looks. I wanted to look like the black
11:28woman I am, only a better version."
11:30Leakes went on to detail the additional work she's had done, including getting smaller
11:34implants and a breast lift at the same time and adding on liposuction at her waist. While
11:38plastic surgery isn't for everyone, Leakes told People that she is thrilled with the
11:42results. She gushed,
11:43"...my curves look very nice in tight dresses. I couldn't be happier."
11:46While being interviewed on The Wendy Williams Show nine years later, Leakes owned up to
11:50being willing to go under the knife again, telling the host,
11:53"...I would do my boobs again, like keep my implants and move my tissue around."
11:57But that's not all. She also said she would get another nose job, too. However, when asked
12:01if she would get a facelift, she declined, saying,
12:03"...that's too much."
12:05Sharon Osbourne has always been open about her past cosmetic procedures. Take, for instance,
12:09her appearance on Dr. Phil back in 2006. During the interview, she admitted to a facelift,
12:14two breast augmentations, neck work, and more.
12:17"...arms cut and lipo'd, legs lifted and lipo'd, um, tummy tuck."
12:24She even confessed to having buttock implants after that. However, she has gotten even more
12:29honest about it as the years have gone on, especially when it comes to the harsh realities
12:33of these surgeries. In an April 2022 episode of her talk TV show, she admitted that her
12:37facelift left a lot to be desired. In fact, Osbourne joked that she had to hold on to
12:42her nose or it might otherwise fall off her body. On top of that, she said that the procedure
12:46was enormously painful, explaining,
12:48"...as you get older, believe me, it gets worse, the pain. It was excruciatingly painful."
12:53Osbourne went on to defend her choice to get plastic surgery and explained to her co-host
12:57that she gets the work done for one person, herself. In fact, she says that her husband
13:01Ozzy and her children all dislike the work she has done. But so be it.
13:06In February 2022, supermodel Linda Evangelista revealed to People that she had undergone
13:11a cosmetic procedure and that the entire experience had backfired in a terrible way. Evangelista
13:16explained that she'd opted to undergo CoolSculpting, a type of fat freezing procedure that is billed
13:20as a safer option than liposuction. Three months after the procedure, she realized that
13:25the parts of her body she had attempted to change were now bulging in new ways that devastated
13:30She was eventually diagnosed with paradoxical adipose hyperplasia, or PAH, a side effect
13:35that typically impacts 1 percent of the people who undergo CoolSculpting. Evangelista has
13:39to contend with a lot of side effects from the condition, explaining to People that if
13:43she doesn't wear compression garments, the PAH doesn't go away. On top of that, she has
13:48to deal with bleeding. She admitted,
13:49"...if I walk without a girdle and a dress, I will have chafing to the point of almost
13:53bleeding, because it's not like soft fat rubbing, it's like hard fat rubbing."
13:57The fallout from the procedure has impacted her to the point that the model also admitted
14:01to not being willing to look at herself in the mirror.
14:04While talking to Jimmy Kimmel in 2014, Kourtney Love admitted to undergoing a rhinoplasty
14:08early in her career. She explained that she chose to undergo the procedure to help her
14:12career after auditioning for a movie and failing to get the role. As she put it,
14:16"...let's just be real, I had a really big nose, and that schnoz was not taking me anywhere."
14:21"...and Sue, you had a nose job."
14:23"...yeah, I got my nose fixed."
14:24Love said the results were nearly instantaneous, adding that the whole world changed in the
14:28first six months after she had the procedure done and never looked back. As she told the
14:32talk show host, she has zero regrets.
14:34Love was interviewed by Canadian magazine Fashion that same year, where she joked that
14:38she didn't want to discuss aging naturally. She then cited another beloved entertainer,
14:42saying,
14:43"...come on, I took advice from Goldie Hawn when she said I should get a facelift at 35."
14:47It's entirely possible Love has had other work done, but this is what she has admitted
14:50to publicly.
14:53Disney star Heidi Montag began getting work done in 2007. When she was cast on The Hills,
14:57she quickly signed up for a nose job and breast augmentation. Montag didn't stop there. By
15:01January 2010, she'd undergone a number of procedures that culminated in a 10-hour day
15:06and a seven-week recovery period documented by People. In total, she underwent 10 procedures
15:11— a mini-brow lift, Botox, a new nose job, fat injections, chin reduction, neck liposuction,
15:17ear pinning, another breast augmentation, additional liposuction on her midregion, and buttock
15:22augmentation. Montag told People that she decided to do everything at the same time
15:26because that's just who she is. As she put it,
15:28"...that's kind of my personality, everything at once, and I really just wanted to go under
15:32anesthesia once, instead of going under again and again."
15:35In 2019, Montag spoke about the surgeries in an interview with Cosmopolitan, admitting
15:40that she wishes she had waited longer to do them. She said,
15:43"...I wish I had waited and not made a decision so young because I have long-term health complications."
15:48She then added that while she doesn't regret the work, it's important to carefully consider
15:52how serious the procedures are before going through with them. She warned,
15:55"...plastic surgery isn't something that should be glorified. Take it seriously."
16:00Cultural icon Jane Fonda has been open about her choice to go under the knife a number
16:04of times. Fonda began modeling in 1959 before moving on to a successful film career in the
16:0960s, and she continues to thrive both on the small and big screen to this day. In an interview
16:13with Elle, Fonda was candid about why she made the choice to get plastic surgery throughout
16:17her career, and why she'll never do so again. As Fonda put it,
16:20"...I can't pretend that I'm not vain. But there isn't going to be any more plastic surgery.
16:24I'm not going to cut myself up anymore."
16:26She then went on to admit that learning to accept herself as she is has become an everyday
16:30act for her, and in her 2018 documentary, Jane Fonda in Five Acts, she lamented,
16:35"...I hate the fact that I have had the need to alter myself physically, to feel that I'm
16:41okay."
16:42It's clear that Fonda has put a lot of thought into the hows and whys of pursuing plastic
16:47In an interview with The Guardian, she mused that for some reason, trauma might be what
16:51drives them to change their physical form. She said,
16:53"...When I see a woman who's made her face a mask, I say, I bet, I bet."
16:58In a revealing interview with Newsweek, Lil' Kim opened up about her struggle with self-esteem
17:02and how it's impacted the changes she's made to her body. After sharing that dealing with
17:06men who have told her she wasn't attractive enough, Kim says that one reason she began
17:09undergoing plastic surgery is to transform herself into the type of women those men seem
17:13to want. Kim explained,
17:15"...Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long
17:19hair type. Really beautiful women that left me thinking, how can I compete with that?
17:23Being a regular black girl wasn't good enough."
17:25So she underwent a breast augmentation, and recalled that the recovery period was the
17:29most painful thing she'd ever gone through. But instead of being praised for the choice,
17:33she found herself maligned, which was confusing. She explained,
17:36"...White women get them every day. It was to make me look the way I wanted to look.
17:40It's my body."
17:42In 2007, Ashley Tisdale underwent rhinoplasty to help with a deviated septum. Though she
17:47didn't think the decision was that big of a deal, many others unfortunately did, and
17:51they wouldn't let the story die. As a result, she felt an obligation to her audience, which,
17:56at the time, included many minors, to be honest about having the work done and why. But as
18:00she explained, she wasn't exactly allowed to do so. She wrote on her website Frenchie,
18:04"...plastic surgery wasn't culturally accepted then like it is now. When I got it done, I
18:09was scrutinized, judged, and made to feel ashamed over my decision."
18:13These days, she's able to be as honest about it as she wants, which became evident in 2020,
18:17when she underwent surgery to remove breast implants that were causing her health issues.
18:21She shared the news with her fans via her Instagram story, captioning a photo of herself,
18:25"...got my implants taken out a year ago, got pregnant and now have natural boobs. Life
18:30is funny."
18:31Friends star Lisa Kudrow believes her rhinoplasty was a life-affirming, if not life-saving procedure.
18:36"...would you relax? I know what I am doing."
18:40In 2013, Kudrow opened up about the insecurities that plagued her when she was young, telling
18:44the Saturday Evening Post,
18:46"...I went from, in my mind, hideous to not hideous. I did it the summer before going
18:50to a new high school."
18:51Kudrow went on to explain that the timing of the procedure was definitely intentional,
18:55as getting the surgery before going to a new school meant that a lot of her classmates
18:58had no idea what her original nose looked like. Kudrow added that her entire middle
19:03experience was pretty tough, as she often had to rely on her older sister to have someone
19:07to spend time with at school. She explained,
19:09"...she would find out when our half-days were, when everybody would go out to lunch,
19:12and I would have no one to eat with."
19:14She then went on to praise her older sister for being sensitive and aware of her plight.
19:18Lil Wayne's daughter, Reginae Carter, underwent a breast augmentation in October 2020,
19:23and was thrilled with the results. Carter happily discussed the procedure with People
19:26the following month, explaining that she chose to undergo the procedure after first asking her mom
19:31about it when she was 16 or 17. When she finally made the call, Carter was 21 and old enough to
19:36make her own decisions. Carter also told People that despite once publicly stating on Instagram
19:40that she had no plans to get implants, she doesn't regret the decision at all. In fact,
19:45the new implants make her feel better than ever, as she says the choice was hers to make, adding,
19:49"...any enhancement that I wanted to make was my decision. Nobody pressured me. Nobody told
19:53me to do this."
19:54And most importantly, Carter feels good about who she was before and after the surgery. She added,
19:59"...I loved myself before the boobs and I love myself after."
20:02In 2007, Gene Simmons and his partner, Shannon Tweed, decided to get facelifts together,
20:07a double procedure that was documented in full on the reality show Gene Simmons' Family Jewels.
20:12"...your little fat face."
20:16"...that's it. I'm gonna cut off the whole head."
20:18At the time, Simmons told People that the idea wasn't something that he came up with overnight.
20:22He had contemplated it for some time. As he said,
20:25"...I thought about it before. I was aware I had jowls."
20:27For her part, Tweed joked that she just didn't want her longtime partner to look
20:31any younger than she did, so going under the knife at the same time made sense.
20:35Years later, Simmons revisited the experience during an interview with The Sydney Morning
20:39Herald. After being asked if he believes other people should get a facelift after he did,
20:43Simmons said no. Instead, he believes that people should focus on their own journeys.
20:47As he put it,
20:48"...everybody's journey should be a personal choice. Don't look over your
20:51shoulder while you're running in the race of life. Do the best you can."
20:54In a 2015 essay for HuffPost, Modern Family star Reed Ewing revealed that he suffers from
20:59body dysmorphic disorder, a condition that causes a person to overly obsess about flaws
21:03in their appearance.
21:04"...it was weird. It was kinda like sometimes I would think I was really
21:07handsome and sometimes I would think I was hideously ugly."
21:10Ewing wrote that, at the beginning of his career, he spent a lot of time studying his own face,
21:15looking for perceived flaws, until one day he decided to do something about what he didn't like.
21:19Ewing met with a doctor who agreed to give the then-19-year-old cheek implants.
21:23Unfortunately, once he recovered, he discovered the results were horrendous.
21:26Ewing went on to add,
21:28"...the lower half of my cheeks were as hollow as a corpse's, which, I know,
21:31is the opposite of what you'd expect, as they are called cheek implants."
21:34Ewing spent the next couple of years getting more and more work done on his face,
21:38all while he was working on Modern Family. He explained that, for most of the time he
21:41was shooting, he transitioned to using fillers and fat transplants instead of surgery and implants.
21:46Ewing finally stopped getting work done in 2012. He concluded his essay by revealing
21:50that his self-esteem is significantly better now, writing,
21:53"...I wish I could go back and undo all the surgeries.
21:56Now I can see that I was fine to begin with, and didn't need the surgeries after all."
22:00Mickey Rourke began his career in Hollywood as an actor in the 1980s,
22:04and at the time, he was considered as handsome as Marlon Brando.
22:07"...That's all there was to it. Any idiot could do it."
22:09But many have noticed that Rourke's looks have changed over the years, and in 2009,
22:13Rourke explained to the Daily Mail that his subsequent career as a boxer had a drastic
22:17impact on his face. Rourke revealed that his face took a true beating from the people he boxed
22:22against, and that he didn't make the best choices when it was time to repair things. As he put it,
22:26"...most of it was to mend the mess of my face because of the boxing,
22:29but I went to the wrong guy to put my face back together."
22:31Rourke then detailed the injuries he's had, which include five operations on his nose
22:35and one on his cheekbone, as well as what it's taken to put his face back together,
22:39noting that he once had cartilage taken from an ear to rebuild his nose.
22:43In January 2022, comedian and actor Amy Schumer took to Instagram to share some news.
22:48She'd recently undergone quite a few procedures, and at least one of them was cosmetic.
22:52"...I've always wondered what it's like to be undeniably pretty."
22:57"...Wait, that's me!"
22:58Schumer posted a photo of herself with a caption that explained that,
23:01in addition to the cesarean section that brought her son into the world,
23:04she'd had a hysterectomy and liposuction performed. Schumer explained,
23:07"...I never thought I would do anything,
23:09but talk to me after your uterus doesn't contract for 2.5 years and you turn 40."
23:14Schumer opened up about liposuction in a March 2022 interview with The Hollywood Reporter,
23:18sharing with the publication that, for her, getting the work done was just about liking herself.
23:22As she said,
23:23"...it's not about needing to be slamming, because I've never been famous for being hot,
23:26but I'd reached a place where I was tired of looking at myself in the mirror."
23:30Ariel Winter is another Modern Family star who's had cosmetic surgery,
23:34though in her case, she had her natural breasts reduced. Winter eventually opened up about the
23:38decision in an interview with Glamour, explaining that she knew something had to change when she was
23:4215 years old and wearing a size F bra. It turns out that Winter isn't the only woman in her family
23:48who has had the surgery done. She told the magazine that, after spending hours in pain
23:52while working on set, she began to speak to her family members about their own experiences.
23:56She explained,
23:57"...a few of my cousins have had breast reductions,
23:59so it wasn't a shock when I decided to get one."
24:01Luckily, things worked out well for Winter,
24:03and she's completely pleased with the results of her surgery. She said,
24:06"...I can't even really put into words about how amazing it feels to really feel right."
24:11Courteney Cox has been very open about her complicated journey with aging.
24:14"...thinking I was getting older when I was really young. That's just a bummer,
24:18a waste of time."
24:19She's even admitted that she's had some work done here and there to try to slow the process.
24:23She told New Beauty that her attitudes about aging stem from her childhood, explaining,
24:27"...I grew up thinking appearance was the most important thing,
24:30that as long as I looked okay, I would be okay, which got me into trouble. On top of that,
24:34living under the spotlight of Hollywood for so long took its toll."
24:38She added,
24:38"...Hollywood makes it hard. This business makes it harder."
24:41Cox also explained how easy it is to keep adding, quote,
24:44"...layers and layers of cosmetic work to your skin when you work in Hollywood."
24:47She said that it's difficult to know when it's too much because of how the process works,
24:51explaining,
24:52"...you have no idea because it's gradual, until you go,
24:54oh s**t, this doesn't look right."
24:56She said that while all of the filler in her face has been dissolved,
24:59she hasn't ruled out more work in the future. As she put it,
25:01"...but they come up with new stuff all the time.
25:04It's crazy how many new machines are out there."
25:06In December 2009, talk show host Wendy Williams shared a story that surprised some people.
25:12She and her 9-year-old son had already discussed the breast augmentation she had 14 years earlier.
25:17Williams told People that her son's question startled her. As she put it,
25:20"...I gagged when my son came and asked me about the implants."
25:23But it turns out that he asked the question because of something he had seen on her talk
25:26show. So Williams felt she had to own up to the truth. She explained,
25:30"...our son did not know I had breast implants,
25:32so I sat down and went through plastic surgery with him. And it was great,
25:35because I was able to let him know that when his dad met me, I was completely natural."
25:39She then admitted that she opted to have liposuction performed at the
25:42same time as the breast augmentation. And she doesn't regret either decision.
25:46In 2013, former child star Amanda Bynes admitted to a whole host of cosmetic procedures,
25:52sharing that she had breast augmentation performed and then had her implants removed.
25:56"...I feel like half of me is missing."
25:58In addition, she underwent rhinoplasty in May of the same year, and wrote in a tweet,
26:02"...I plan on having surgery on my whole face straight up. I love surgery."
26:06In another tweet that has since been deleted, Bynes doubled down on her plans and explained
26:10that she'd asked websites and magazines to stop running old photos of her that no longer reflect
26:14the person she was post-surgery. As she put it,
26:16"...I had a nose job to remove skin that was like a webbing in between my eyes.
26:20I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I look so much prettier in my new photos
26:24that I don't want old photos used anymore."
26:26At the time, Bynes claimed that the surgery was, quote,
26:28"...the most amazing thing for her sense of self-worth," which was backed up by an
26:32anonymous source who told Radar Online that the surgery on her nose had drastically increased
26:36her confidence. Plenty of fans of the movie Dirty Dancing know that the film star, Jennifer Grey,
26:42underwent a rhinoplasty following the film's release, and that the surgery changed her face
26:46so much that some people couldn't recognize her.
26:49"...Nobody puts baby in a corner."
26:50"...Stomachs find crazy."
26:53It turns out that no one knows this more than Grey herself, writing in her memoir
26:56Out of the Corner that, when she got the nose job, she realized she had, quote,
27:00"...committed an unforgivable crime."
27:02Grey went to a consultation about her nose following the release of Dirty Dancing,
27:06and was told that a deviated septum meant that she was only breathing at 20 percent capacity.
27:10In her memoir, she insists that she asked her surgeon to leave the bump in her nose,
27:14but had qualms about the procedure. She wrote,
27:16"...I was almost 30 and had spent much of my adult life trying to love and accept myself as I was."
27:21Ultimately, she went through with it, but she soon noticed that something was wrong
27:25with the initial nose job, so she went in to have it repaired. This second surgery
27:29proved disastrous, and she was soon unrecognizable to family and friends.
27:34In 2007, tabloids were abuzz with rumors that Jennifer Aniston had elected to have
27:38a number of cosmetic procedures done. In an interview with People,
27:41she laughed off most of the rumors, but did admit to one — rhinoplasty.
27:45Explaining that she had the procedure done to correct for medical reasons, she said,
27:49"...it's funny. I had a deviated septum fixed. Best thing I ever did.
27:53I slept like a baby for the first time in years."
27:55But when it comes to additional procedures, Aniston insisted that everything else about
27:59her body is what she was born with. As she put it,
28:02"...I really am pretty happy with what God gave me."
28:04In 2018, Aniston's representative confirmed to Us Weekly that the star had a second
28:08rhinoplasty performed to fix something that went wrong with her 2007 surgery.
28:13In 2006, Cameron Diaz opened up about aging in Hollywood and what kind of
28:17plastic surgery she could have done in an effort to slow the process.
28:21It turns out that Diaz was a pretty big fan of aging as naturally as possible at the time.
28:25However, after she broke her nose for the fourth time, she began to consider having it fixed.
28:30As she told W Magazine, she first considered the idea on the advice of her doctor. She
28:34explained that she didn't let the doctor straighten her nose when he wanted to,
28:38until ultimately, she said,
28:39So I'm over it. I'm getting it fixed. I can't take it. I cannot breathe at all.
28:43One side of my nose is totally shattered."
28:45Eventually, she went through with the rhinoplasty,
28:48which she admitted to in her 2016 book, Longevity. Beyond that, though,
28:51she hasn't had much done — well, besides trying Botox. But only once. As she told ET,
28:57"...it changed my face in such a weird way that I was like,
29:01no, I don't wanna like — I'd rather see myself."
29:04Jillian Michaels has built a career in the fitness and wellness industry,
29:08so some might have been surprised by her 2020 admission that she underwent rhinoplasty
29:12at the age of 16. However, Michaels told People that opting into the surgery was a game-changer
29:17for her, explaining,
29:18"...I had my nose done when I was 16 years old, and I'll be honest, it did change my life."
29:23Michaels also added that she had to deal with bullies for years before she decided
29:26to get the nose work done. She concluded the interview by pointing out that,
29:30while cosmetic surgery might not be for everyone,
29:32she supports it if getting work done helps someone feel more confident.
29:35Ultimately, for Michaels, plastic surgery is about why you do it — and for whom.
29:40Ashley Simpson has never directly admitted to undergoing any kind of cosmetic surgery,
29:44though it's widely believed that she had a rhinoplasty performed in 2006.
29:48Despite the fact that Simpson doesn't seem to feel comfortable outright saying she has
29:52or hasn't had work done, she did tell Us Weekly that it's pretty obvious that she has. As she put
29:57it,
29:57"...I think as long as people have two eyes, then you probably know the answer."
30:01Experts also agree that Simpson underwent rhinoplasty. Los Angeles-based surgeon's
30:05office, Ronsley Plastic Surgery, writes that it appears Simpson had the cartilage and bone
30:09on the bridge of her nose cut off, which will ultimately result in a narrower,
30:12smaller nose with a straight profile. And while the tip of Simpson's nose appears to have changed,
30:17the office isn't so sure. They noted,
30:19"...Ashley's new perkier tip is mostly an optical illusion."
30:22Her tip has also been refined by debulking some of the tip cartilages.
30:26On July 3rd, 2021, Bachelorette star Claire Crawley made a big announcement on her Instagram.
30:31She decided to have her breast implants removed. Crawley shared a video in which
30:35she detailed a myriad of health issues that all seem to be linked to her implants — an
30:39elevated white blood count, an itchy rash, and ultimately, the discovery of saxa fluid
30:43behind her implants.
30:44"...It's hard sometimes pretending like things are okay when you know you're not doing okay."
30:50She explained,
30:50"...As much as I love my implants, my body is fighting them,
30:53and recognizes it as something obviously foreign in my body. As much as I loved having these,
30:58this is so important to me that I love my health more."
31:01Crawley isn't the only one linking breast implants to these troubling symptoms.
31:04The FDA has recorded a number of symptoms that can be tied to implants,
31:08including an itchy rash like the one Crawley experienced.
31:12In July 2021, fashion designer Marc Jacobs revealed to his Instagram followers that
31:16he had elected to undergo a facelift. In his typical forthright way,
31:20Jacobs shared the news by posting a photo of his heavily bandaged head on Instagram.
31:24Jacobs continued to post photos documenting his recovery,
31:26offering transparency that most celebrities try to avoid. As Vogue noted at the time by
31:31sharing photos of what really happens after you have a facelift, the designer was actually
31:35educating his social media audience on the procedure. The outlet also noted that Jacobs'
31:40procedure was performed by New York's Dr. Andrew Giacono, who uses a modern technique
31:44that leaves the skin of the face on the muscle as it's lifted. Dr. Giacono praised his client
31:48for being open about having work done. As he told Vogue,
31:51when someone of Marc's status is sharing, it helps people realize that there are things
31:55we all can do to maintain ourselves and enhance our appearance.
31:59In a 2016 essay for Refinery29, actor Stephanie March explained the steps that led to her decision
32:04to undergo a breast augmentation. As she wrote, she went to the hospital for an emergency
32:08appendectomy in November 2013, had further surgery for endometriosis in December of the same year,
32:14and, by the following year, had decided to get breast implants. As March went on to write,
32:18she can retroactively see that getting breast implants at that point was not the best decision
32:22for her. There were so many things in her life that were, in her words, disintegrating — her
32:2610-year marriage, her work, and more. She added,
32:29"...I decided to try one last thing, and what I did next was exactly what you are not supposed
32:34to do when it comes to plastic surgery. I decided to change my body because I couldn't change my
32:38life."
32:38Unfortunately, one of her breasts became infected within weeks, and she had to have the implant
32:43removed. In doing so, March found out that she was allergic to the implants themselves. Ultimately,
32:48she had the implants removed on the advice of her doctor. March concluded her piece,
32:52"...Every day, the evidence of all that happened fades a little more, and my year of living
32:56terribly recedes into memory. All that I had, all that I was, from the beginning, was all I
33:01needed to be."